Sup you beautiful bastards.

Hope even a fantastic Wednesday.

Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show,

and let's just jump into it.

And the first thing we are going to talk about today

is this story and the panic around it

that has blown up around this so-called Momo challenge.

And I'm going to let you know right at the beginning,

so there is no confusion.

A big chunk of this story involves a hoax.

A lot of the panic around this situation

is being fueled by headline readers and people only seeing one thing

not diving deeper, and a large chunk of the media that is completely willing to get clicks off of this panic.

But the main point of the story should be no matter what if you are a parent to a young child you should be monitoring what

they are consuming online there are bad actors there are things that slip

through and you are the person enabling that child to access it but all of that

said let's start the. So what exactly is the

MoMO challenge and understand here we're going to be explaining what people have been saying the story is.

So MoMOMO, according to the story, is this figure that can be contacted via what's-app and it appears with this really creepy image.

Also on that note that image is actually of a statue made by a Japanese artist

although it's unclear how that image became attached to the MoMO challenge.

But according to this story that was being spread around people most, most commonly teens and children, can reach MoMO by texting a certain number on what's-sap.

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